Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.
Richard Simmons
You are one of a kind and unique. Never forget that.
If your oxygen mask drops down, it's time to take a breather!
Work hard, take care of yourself, and you'll be just fine.
When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.
People treat me like family, 'cause I've always treated them like family.
Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There's no one in the world like you. You are amazing.
When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.
Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.
You shouldn't make fun of people who have issues.
I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.
Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.
No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.
Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.
Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.
I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.
I've always practiced this: Love yourself. Move your body. Watch your portions.
I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.
I think it is very important that you like yourself for who you are and not want to look like anyone else. You also have to understand, many people have had cosmetic surgeries in order to look the way they look. So why look like them when you can just look like you? And there is nothing wrong with looking like you.
Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.
Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.
We're all in trouble, and we all need to sort of pick up the pieces and start to exercise more and really be careful with the food.
There are sacrifices you have to make. I don't have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people.
When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.
But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!
People have been frying foods since Jesus was on this planet, and there is always going to be greasy, fried, salty, sugary food. It is up to the individual to walk in and say, 'I don't want those fries today.'
When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.
Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.' I'm not going to lie to you - I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.
Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.
My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run. Who are you competing against? It's you. You need to be doing this for you and only you.
I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.
Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.
A kid who moves is a kid who learns.
My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. At the same time, you have people in the hospital who have had gastric bypass or lap-band surgery, and they still have to work out. If you don't work out and eat healthy, you'll look like a melted candle.
Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.
I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.
In high school, I could get beaten up all the time, or I could be something better. I became the court jester.
Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body.
One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, 'Farewell to Fat'.
It's not nice to make fun of people with issues.
I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.
How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told - as a children been told that they're no good, that they're never going to be anything else.
I'm not into any show that makes people compete when they lose weight.
Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.
I don't talk about my personal life, and I don't talk about death.
People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.
I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wearing extra-small Dolfin shorts, a tank top and leg warmers, I get a little upset.
I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital.
I don't have to teach anymore, I don't have to work anymore, God has been really good to me.
I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day.
